Sacred Songs: Psalm 51

This message on Psalm 51 traces the difference between image-management and real repentance by contrasting shallow, self-protective confession with the brokenhearted honesty God receives. David's psalm rises out of the confrontation in 2 Samuel 12 after his sin with Bathsheba and the murder of Uriah, and the sermon shows how true confession refuses to minimize sin, appeals only to God's steadfast…